“By being yourself you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” ~Edwin Elliot
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Sitting on a cattail
Recently, while driving down a road near the Mississippi River levee, I spotted this bird sitting among the cattails.
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way.” ~Mark Twain
A sprig of grass
“There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.” ~Thomas Jefferson
Messing with the dog
Along the lake’s edge
There’s music in the sighing of a reed;
There’s music in the gushing of a rill;
There’s music in all things, if people had ears;
Their earth is but the echo of the spheres.
~Lord Byron
Beauty
“He has made everything beautiful in its time …” Ecclesiastes 3:11
Insects
Music is in all growing things;
And underneath the silky wings
Of smallest insects there is stirred
A pulse of air that must be heard;
Earth’s silence lives, and throbs, and sings.
~George Parsons Lathrop
Summer sunset
“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.” ~Elbert Hubbard
Spicebush Swallowtail
One morning last week, a beautiful swallowtail was mud-puddling in our back yard. I couldn’t help but grab the camera and take a few shots. 🙂
“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.” – William Hazlett
Tufted Titmouse
I enjoy the lively energy this small bird exudes as he flutters from feeder to bush to tree — his echoing voice clearly declaring his presence. To be so small, he certainly holds his own with the other birds.
“I’m not going to give up, shut up, or let up, until I’m taken up … as a matter of fact, I’m just getting warmed up!” ~Zig Ziglar
